The Galley Slave's Ring; or, The Family of Lebrenn

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  THE GALLEY SLAVE'S RING

  THE FULL SERIES OF The Mysteries of the People OR History of a Proletarian Family Across the Ages

  By EUGENE SUE

  _Consisting of the Following Works:_

  THE GOLD SICKLE; or, _Hena the Virgin of the Isle of Sen_. THE BRASS BELL; or, _The Chariot of Death_. THE IRON COLLAR; or, _Faustina and Syomara_. THE SILVER CROSS; or, _The Carpenter of Nazareth_. THE CASQUE'S LARK; or, _Victoria, the Mother of the Camps_. THE PONIARD'S HILT; or, _Karadeuoq and Ronan_. THE BRANDING NEEDLE; or, _The Monastery of Charolles_. THE ABBATIAL CROSIER; or, _Bonaik and Septimine_. THE CARLOVINGIAN COINS; or, _The Daughters of Charlemagne_. THE IRON ARROW-HEAD; or, _The Buckler Maiden_. THE INFANT'S SKULL; or, _The End of the World_. THE PILGRIM'S SHELL; or, _Fergan the Quarryman_. THE IRON PINCERS; or, _Mylio and Karvel_. THE IRON TREVET; or _Jocelyn the Champion_. THE EXECUTIONER'S KNIFE; or, _Joan of Arc_. THE POCKET BIBLE; or, _Christian the Printer_. THE BLACKSMITH'S HAMMER; or, _The Peasant Code_. THE SWORD OF HONOR; or, _The Foundation of the French Republic_. THE GALLEY SLAVE'S RING; or, _The Family Lebrenn_.

  Published Uniform With This Volume By THE NEW YORK LABOR NEWS CO. 28 CITY HALL PLACE NEW YORK CITY

  THE GALLEY SLAVE'S RING OR THE FAMILY OF LEBRENN

  A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848

  By EUGENE SUE

  TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL FRENCH By DANIEL DE LEON

  NEW YORK LABOR NEWS COMPANY. 1911

  Copyright, 1911, by the NEW YORK LABOR NEWS CO.

  INDEX

  TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE I

  CHAPTER

  I GILDAS AND JEANIKE 1

  II GEORGE DUCHENE 19

  III MARIK LEBRENN 40

  IV PRADELINE 60

  V CARDINAL AND COUNT 70

  VI JOEL AND NEROWEG 82

  VII "THE SWORD OF BRENNUS" 103

  VIII ON THE EVE OF BATTLE 113

  IX POPULAR JUSTICE 127

  X ON THE BARRICADE 139

  XI LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC! 161

  XII THE GALLEY-SLAVE AND THE GENERAL 168

  XIII HOME AGAIN 181

  XIV SACROVIR'S BIRTHDAY 190

  XV THE MYSTERIOUS CHAMBER 198

  EPILOGUE 219

  TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

  With this story, _The Galley Slave's Ring; or, The Family of Lebrenn_,closes the series of the nineteen historic novels comprised in EugeneSue's monumental work _The Mysteries of the People; or, History of aProletarian Family Across the Ages_.

  They who have read the preceding eighteen stories will agree that fromthe moment they began the first volume of the series, _The Gold Sickle;or, Hena the Virgin of the Isle of Sen_, down to the eighteenth, _TheSword of Honor; or, The Foundation of the French Republic_, they enjoyeda matchless promenade as they followed Sue through the Ages of History,from the time of the invasion of Gaul by Julius Caesar, shortly beforeChrist, down to the great epoch marked by the French Revolution. Norwill their expectations concerning this closing story be disappointed.

  _The Galley Slave's Ring; or, The Family of Lebrenn_ is staged on theAge that witnessed the downfall of Louis Philippe--the last of theBourbon line--and the aspirations that raised the Second Republic. Whileseveral of the figures are historic, in this story historic charactersstep forth less pronouncedly than historic principles. In this story arefound the Principles, the old and the newest, that have since occupiedthe stage of man's history, and the clash of which, down to our owndays, occupies man's attention.

  Inestimable as the previous stories are to the understanding of the Ageof the present story, the present story, enlivened with the vein ofromance, is inestimable to the understanding of our own Age.

  DANIEL DE LEON.

  Milford, Conn., February, 1911.